Therapy is like a dance where sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow, and sometimes you simply dance in tandem.

If the teen is sick, then the parents (and often the rest of the family) can avoid dealing with their own stuff. They can blame the teen, they can focus on the teen, they can enable the teen. In fact, the depend on the teen for being, in an odd sort of way, the “anchor of their dysfunction.”

Many times in family therapy, people mis-hear, mis-communicate or mis-understand what is being said.

The weakening dollar has made world travel simply too expensive for most Americans, and gas prices, food prices, rising utility bills and the massive increase in healthcare costs this past year means that many Americans are staying home.